Yes, it’s that time of year again--the time when the windows are open at night, a plaintive little cricket comes and sits close to it, and begins its constant chirp. Last year (2021) I put a positive spin on the little creature, It’s Cricket Time: From my backyard to yours. How it can be a godsend to your financial situation if you can only find one the right colour to do so. |
It’s pretty hard to deny that our climate is changing, whether we like it or not. On a daily basis we see droughts, floods, refugees fleeing from natural disasters, declining fish stocks, poor grazing, crop failures, and the list goes on.
By 2050, when the world's population reaches nine billion, there won’t be enough protein to feed the world. Scientists understand this, and are working overtime to find ways of making the consumption of certain insects ( read that as crickets) acceptable in society.
In particular, crickets, a highly sustainable source of protein also provide a healthy dose of omega-3. Please don’t stop reading here, because there has to be some drastic thought on this.
In the cricket powder used in a protein bar by EXO, 100 g of flour contains about 340 mg of Omega-3. It’s generally recommended by health organizations to consume between 250-500 mg of Omega-3 per day.
You don’t need to replace all your meals with crickets. But by supplementing some of your protein and omega-3s from crickets, you can support your own nutrition, and the health of future fish stocks.
They bought EXO for their food production in 1919.
It’s interesting to see how you can enjoy crickets as your protein of choice here.
You don’t have to watch little crickets all singing their final songs though. No one will arrive with a net to catch them. These are sustainably farmed choice crickets, harvested in their millions In this facility, Entomofarms in Ontario shares how they do it.